And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
James 1:8 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Tuilleadh leaganachaAmplified Bible - Classic Edition [For being as he is] a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides]. American Standard Version (1901) a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. Common English Bible They are double-minded, unstable in all their ways. Catholic Public Domain Version For a man who is of two minds is inconstant in all his ways. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways. English Standard Version 2016 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. |
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.